William Eggleston: Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain, Paris. (Reviews: Focus).(Brief Article)

One new photograph, specially commissioned for this 215-image retrospective, shows a spotted pooch, presumably made of porcelain but in any event exceedingly well behaved. Sporting a red leash that leads outside the frame (to its master's hand? to a doorknob?), the animal, an English pointer by the look of it, stares patiently out at us.

We can easily guess that the photo was taken in Japan (Kyoto, in fact), or at least in a Far Eastern country, as the upper corner reveals the edge of a poster on which several ideograms appear. Like all of the Japanese photos commissioned for the ...

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